Buxhall is a village in the middle of Suffolk about 4 miles to the south-west of Stowmarket. The main businesses/occupations seem always to have been associated with agriculture.
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Buxhall, a pleasant village, 3 1/2 miles west by south of Stowmarket, has in its parish 533 souls, and 2523A. 1R. 25P. of land, now rated, with the buildings, at the yearly value of £3,465 10s. It is mostly freehold, and lies in four manors, viz., Buxhall, belonging to the Rev. Coppinger Hill of Buxhall Lodge; Cockerells Hall, belonging to the Hon. and Rev. Sir Henry Leslie, Bart., of Box Hill, Surrey; Fen Hall, belonging to Sir J. R. Rowley, Bart.; and Liffeys Hall, belonging to Mr. John Fuller [q.v., of Isleham, Combs and Ipswich].
The other principal owners of the soil are Lord Ashburnham, Lieut. Garnham, of Buxhall Vale; R. Hillhouse, Esq., Captain Parker, and Messrs. R. Osborn [q.v.], T. Stearn, and J. Hopson.
The manor of Buxhall was the property of Sir William Coppinger, Lord Mayor of London, in 1512, who was born here, and at his death left half his property to charitable uses, and the other half to his relations, who long flourished here, and became so famous for hospitality that "to live like Coppingers" was a long proverbial expression in this neighbourhood.
The church (St. Mary) is an ancient structure, and the living is a rectory, valued in K.B. at £20 0s. 5d., and now having a yearly modus of £680, in lieu of tithes, and a neat residence. The Rev. C. Hill, M.A., is patron; and the Rev. Charles Green, B.A., incumbent. The Rev. Henry Hill, a late rector, patron, and lord of the manor of Buxhall, successfully practised here the drilling of wheat in rows, at the distance of 18 inches. In 1615, Mark Salter left a yearly rent-charge of 20s. for the poor parishoners, who have also £4 8s. 10d. yearly from £148 three per cent consols., left be the late Mrs. Elizabeth S. Garnham.
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Buxhall, a pleasant village, 3 1/2 miles west by south of Stowmarket, has in its parish 560 souls, and 2523A. 1R. 25P. of land, now rated, with the buildings, at the yearly value of £3,465 10s. It is mostly freehold, and lies in four manors, viz., Buxhall, belonging to the Rev. Coppinger Hill; Cockerells Hall, belonging to Edward Bennett, Esquire, of Buxhall Lodge; Fen Hall, belonging to Sir J. R. Rowley, Bart.; and Leffey Hall, belonging to John Fuller, Esquire [q.v., of Isleham, Combs and Ipswich].
The other principal owners of the soil are Lord Ashburnham, Lieut. Garnham, R. N., of Buxhall Vale; R. Hillhouse, Esq., Captain Parker, Robert Osborn Fuller, Esquire, of Whalebone Cottage [q.v.]; and Messrs. T. Stearn, W. Spink, and J. Hopson.
The manor of Buxhall was the property of Sir William Coppinger, Lord Mayor of London, in 1512, who was born here, and at his death left half his property to charitable uses, and the other half to his relations, who long flourished here, and became so famous for hospitality that "to live like Coppingers" was a long proverbial expression in this neighbourhood.
The church (St. Mary) is an ancient structure, and the living is a rectory, valued in K.B. at £20 0s. 5d., and now having a yearly modus of £680, in lieu of tithes, and a neat residence. The Rev. C. Hill, M.A., is patron; and the Rev. Charles Green, B.A., incumbent. The Rev. Henry Hill, a late rector, patron, and lord of the manor of Buxhall, successfully practised here the drilling of wheat in rows, at the distance of 18 inches. In 1615, Mark Salter left a yearly rent-charge of 20s. for the poor parishoners, who have also £4 8s. 10d. yearly from £148 three per cent consols., left be the late Mrs. Elizabeth S. Garnham.
Post-Office at Thomas Richer's. Letters via Stowmarket.
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Buxhall, or Buxall, is a pleasant village, 3 1/2 miles west by south of Stowmarket, in Stow Union and County Court district. Its parish has a rateable value of £3,602 2s., and conatins 488 inhabitants, and 2,120 acres of land. It is mostly freehold, and lies in four manors, viz., Buxhall and Cockerells hall, belonging to the Rev. Henry Hill; Fen hall, belonging to Sir C. R. Rowley, Bart.; and Leffey hall, belonging to Messrs. Robinson, Safford and Grimwade.
The principal landowners are the Rev. Henry Hill, Rev. G. B. Twining, R. C. Hillhouse, Esquire, Mr. Garnham's Executors, Lieutenant-Colonel Parker, M.P., and R. J. Pettiward, Esquire, but the Lambert, Clover, Woods, Hobson, Barns, Downing, and Stearn families have estates here.
The manor of Buxhall was the property of Sir William Coppinger, Lord Mayor of London, in 1512, who was born here, and at his death left half his property to charitable uses, and the other half to his relations, who long flourished here, and became so famous for hospitality that "to live like Coppingers" was a long proverbial expression in this neighbourhood.
The church (St. Mary), consisting of nave, chancel, and a massive square tower, containing 5 bells, is an ancient structure. The living is a rectory, valued in K.B. at £20 0s. 5d. and now having a yearly rent-charge of £680, in lieu of tithes, and a neat residence, erected in 1754 and enlarged in 1854, and commanding a good view of Finborough park. The Rev. Henry Hill, B.A., is patron and incumbent, and has 39 acres of glebe. The Rev. Henry Hill, a late rector, patron, and lord of the manor of Buxhall, successfully practised here the drilling of wheat in rows, at the distance of 18 inches. In 1615, Mark Salter left a yearly rent-charge of 20s. for the poor parishoners, who have also £4 8s. 10d. yearly from £148 three per cent consols., left be the late Mrs. Elizabeth S. Garnham.
A good parochial school was built by the late rector in 1846. It is attended by about 60 children, and wholly supported by the present rector.
Post-Office at Mr. John Sawyer's. Letters arrive at 8 a.m. from, and are despatched at 6 p.m. to Stowmarket, which is the nearest Money Order Office.
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Buxhall, or Buxall, is a pleasant village, 3 1/2 miles west by south of Stowmarket, in Stowmarket union and county court district, Bury bankruptcy court district, Stowmarket hundred, Stowmarket petty sessional division, Stow rural deanery, Suffolk archdeaconry, and Norwich diocese. It had 476 inhabitants in 1881 (1891 census not yet available), and comprises 2,120 acres of land; the rateable value is £2,902. It is mostly freehold, and lies in four manors, viz., Buxhall and Cockerells Hall, belonging to the Rev. Henry Hill; Fen Hall, belonging to Sir C. R. Rowley, Bart.; and Leffey hall, belonging to Mr. Grimwade.
The principal landowners are the Rev. Henry Hill, Rev. G. B. Twining, the trustees of (?) Garnham, Esquire, Lieutenant-Colonel Parker, M.P., and R. J. Pettiward, Esquire, but the Lambert, Hobson, Gowing, Pettit, Spink, and Stearn families have land here.
The manor of Buxhall was the property of Sir William Coppinger, Lord Mayor of London, in 1512, who was born here, and at his death left half his property to charitable uses, and the other half to his relations, who long flourished here, and became so famous for hospitality that "to live like Coppingers" was a long proverbial expression in this neighbourhood.
The church (St. Mary), consisting of nave, chancel, and a massive square tower, containing 5 bells, is an ancient structure. The living is a rectory, valued in K.B. at £20 0s. 5d. and now having a yearly rent-charge of £680, in lieu of tithes, and a neat residence, erected in 1754 and enlarged in 1854, and commanding a good view of Finborough park. The Rev. Henry Hill, B.A., is patron and incumbent, and has 39 acres of glebe. The Rev. Henry Hill, a late rector, patron, and lord of the manor of Buxhall, successfully practised here the drilling of wheat in rows, at the distance of 18 inches. In 1615, Mark Salter left a yearly rent-charge of 20s. for the poor parishoners, who have also £4 8s. 10d. yearly from £148 three per cent consols., left be the late Mrs. Elizabeth S. Garnham.
A School Board was formed in 1876, and School built in 1877, at a cost of £700.
Post-Office at Mr. John Sawyer's. Letters arrive at 8:15 a.m., and are despatched at 6 p.m. via Stowmarket, which is the nearest Telegraph Office. Great Finborough is the nearest Money Order Office.
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Buxhall is an interesting but soemwhat scattered village in the hundred of Stow and county of Suffolk, three and a half miles west by south-west of Stowmarket station, on the Great Eastern Railway, twelve miles from Bury St. Edmunds, fifteen from Ipswich - the county town - and eighty-four miles from London. It is in the eastern division of the county, and in the diocese of Norwich, but for County Council purposes is in East Suffolk and the Combs division. It forms, in fact, with Combs, Finborough Magna, Finborough Parva, Onehouse, Harleston, and Shelland, the Combs division of the Stow Union (East Suffolk), and with Finborough Magna, Harleston, Onehouse and Shelland, the Buxhall polling-station of the North-Western or Stowmarket division of the county for Parliamentary purposes, the place of election being Bury St. Edmunds.
Buxhall is surrounded by six parishes. If one begins from the south and proceeds eastward, the adjacent parishesare Finborough, Onehouse, Shelland, Rattlesden, Brettenham and Hitcham. The Parish contains 2,560.093 acres of land, and the rateable value is £3,991 15s. 6d. At the time of the Domesday Survey the population was 200. The increase has not been rapid, for in 1800 it had a population of 385. In 18111 the population was 415 (a note in the Parish Books says 412), in 1821 457, in 1831 466, in 1841 533, in 1871 488, in 1881 476, in 1891 424, in 1901 402. The number of houses in 1794 was 70. The majority of the houses and cottages forming the village are of picturesque design and well situated. They are mostly built of the clay of the neighbourhood and thatched with straw. Originally the mode of covering these dwellings seems to have been by heaping on the roof sods or fern or heath, which apparently answered the purpose of keeping off the inclemencies of weather; but this mode gave place by degrees to the laying on of straw or haum in a more regular manner. The first refinements in roofing were shingles, which are very ancient. Tiles until recently, though commonly in use from the beginning of the sixteenth century, found no place on theroofs of the Buxhall cottages.
Buxhall is called in Domesday Book Bukessalla-buresalla, from Bur-bures, a Bower or dwelling and hala-healthy, or sal, the hall, the bower of health, or healthy hall. Bukes-salla, the hall of flagons. The one meaning has reference to its elevated and salubrious situation, and the other to its hospitable owner.
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